Admiral Stirling as to the working of the Chinese system Watch and Ward—a system founded upon the doctrine of local and collective responsibility. The heterogeneous character of our population is, Mr. Murrow and other witnesses rightly considered by them, to oppose difficulties in the way of its adoption here. But from a petition presented on the 10th instant to your Excellency in the part of a large body of resident Chinese proprietors, offering their free cooperation with the paid police of this City in maintaining order, and repressing crime in their localities, we are happy to derive the hope that these difficulties are not insuperable. For the present, however, we confine ourselves to the recommendation to concur that barriers be erected for the usual purposes of that system, in the several streets and bazars of the city which are exclusively inhabited...